Schedule

Week 1, 1/8: Orienting

Workshop: Introduction to GIS

Week 2, 1/15: What is a Map?

• Laura Herbert, “What do maps really do?” (17 June 2018)
• Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, p. 1-9, 57-65
• Susan Schulten, “The Cartography of Slavery and the Authority of Statistics,” Civil War History 56 (2010), pp. 5–32
• Tim Wallace, “Kevin Lynch & The Imageable Boston” Bostonography (2010)
• Shannon Mattern, “Critiquing Maps II” (5 September 2013)

Workshop: Georeferencing
Project Example: Adam & Zach

Week 3, 1/22: Cartography

• J.B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” Cartographica 26, no. 2 (1989):1-20.
• Barbara Mundy, “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings” Imago Mundi 50, (1998), 11-33.
• GIS Style guide (just read: Topographic and Thematic Maps, Elements Every Map Should Have, and Graphical Hierarchy sections)
• Practice your georeferencing skills in QGIS! Come to class with a georectified version of this map plate of Beacon Hill, ready to go on your laptop in GeoTIFF (.tif) file format. Note: the map comes from Plate 7 of this 1895 atlas of Boston. If you need a refresher on georectifying, see Fred Gibbs’s tutorial “Overlaying Historical Maps with QGIS”.

Workshop: Map Design
Project Example: Sebastien & Alex

Week 4, 1/29: Place I

• Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (2004), p. 1-12.
• Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place (1977), Ch. 1-2 (p. 1-18), Ch. 5 (p. 51-66).
• Skim the following readings to get an introduction to Boston’s African-American history:
  • Stephen Kantrowitz, More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 (2012), p. 13-24.
  • James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Black Bostonians (Revised Edition, 1999), p. 1-13.
  • Kathryn Grover and Janine V. da Silva, Historic Resource Study: Boston African American National Historic Site (2002), p. 1-10.
• Practice your map design skills in QGIS! Use the same 1880 census data from the Urban Transition Project that we used in class and make a map that displays enumeration districts: a) colored according to the percent of its population that is black, b) labeled with the total number of black people in that district. Take a screenshot of your map and include it with your discussion questions over Slack.

Workshop: Spatial Data
Project Example: Shannon

Week 5, 2/5: Space I

• Doreen Massey, For Space, p. 1-15.
• Listen to first 10:20 of interview with Doreen Massey for Social Science Bites.
• George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 p. 1-8, 23-24, 178-205.
• Karen Kemp, “Spatial Analysis, A-Z” from The Spatial Humanities (p. 48-53)
• Choose one of the following readings:
  • James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, Black Bostonians (Revised Edition, 1999), p. 14-26.
  • Stephen Kantrowitz, More Than Freedom: Fighting for Black Citizenship in a White Republic, 1829-1889 (2012), p. 28-40.
• Practice your skills making spatial data in QGIS!

Workshop: Spatial Analysis
Project Example: Alicia & Jill

Site Report Due Monday, February 10th by 11:59PM

Week 6, 2/12: Place II
Note: Meet in Digital Scholarship Commons, Snell Library 211

• Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place, p. 14-62.
• Brian Page and Eric Ross, “Envisioning the Urban Past: GIS Reconstruction of a Lost Denver District”, Frontiers in Digital Humanities (11 August 2015).

Workshop: 3D Modeling I
Project Example: Anjelica & Cassie

Week 7, 2/19: Virtual and Embodied Space
Note: Meet in Digital Scholarship Commons, Snell Library 211

• Setha Low, “Embodied Space(s): Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and Culture”
• Huang et. al., “From Archive, to Access, to Experience - Historical Documents as a Basis for Immersive Experiences” Journal of Map & Geography Libraries (2018)
• Spend at least one hour in the Snell Library Discovery Lab learning how to use their VR headsets and experimenting with any of the available games. Include your observations or reactions about your experience in your Slack discussion channel for this week.

Workshop: 3D Modeling II
Project Example: Danielle & Claire

Week 8, 2/26: Space II
Note: Ryan McNabb from the National Park Service will be visiting class today to discuss the group project

• Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, p. 26-39.
• Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Ch. 7: Walking in the City), p. 91-110.
• Epeli Hau‘ofa, “Our Sea of Islands” (1993)

Workshop: Project Planning Session
Project Example: Carly

3/4: No Class - Spring Break

Week 9, 3/11: Power, Space, and Place

• Wendy Cheng and Rashad Shabazz, “Introduction: Race, Space, and Scale in the Twenty-First Century”, Occasion (2015).
• Kay Anderson, “The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category” (1987)
• Nancy Lee Peluso, “Whose Woods are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia” (1995)

Workshop: TBD
Project Example: Hailey & Mahala

Update (3/12): Due to Northeastern’s decision to move to online learning in the face of COVID-19, please refer to the Slack workspace for remaining weeks of the semester.

Week 10, 3/18: Spatial Narratives

• David Bodenhamer, “Narrating Space and Place” (2015)
• Explore the project “Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative” and then read Vincent Brown, “Mapping a Slave Revolt: Visualizing Spatial History through the Archives of Slavery” Social Text (2015)

Workshop: TBD

Week 11, 3/25: Final Project Workshop

• TBD

Week 12, 4/1: Final Project Workshop

• TBD

Week 13, 4/8: Final Project Public Presentation